What is a nation?
Ideal
Material
Nation-state
Plurinationalism

Determinants of a nation

Eugen Weber
How did a French nation emerge?

State-building nationalism promotes

Education

Literacy

Socialization

Two critiques of Weber

Critique #1
Additional Factors

Critique #2
3 types of Violence

Conquest and Assimilation

Symbolic Exclusion

National Cleansing